Posted on 01/22/2007 6:20:46 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Documentary on beastiality premieres at Sundance Film Festival
By Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times Posted January 21 2007, 6:39 PM EST
PARK CITY, Utah -- "Zoo" is a documentary about what director Robinson Devor accurately characterizes as "the last taboo, on the boundary of something comprehensible." But remarkably, an elegant, eerily lyrical film has resulted.
"Zoo," premiering before a rapt audience Saturday night at Sundance, manages to be a poetic film about a forbidden subject, a perfect marriage between a cool and contemplative director (the little-seen "Police Beat") and potentially incendiary subject matter: sex between men and animals. Not graphic in the least, this strange and strangely beautiful film combines audio interviews (two of the three men involved did not want to appear on camera) with elegiac visual re-creations intended to conjure up the mood and spirit of situations. The director himself puts it best: "I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it."
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We are beyond the slippery slope and now are at rock bottom.
In the end, Devor ended up agreeing with the Roman writer Terence, who said "I consider nothing human alien to me."
"It happens," the filmmaker said, "so it's part of who we are."
Not exactly something to be proud of. I suppose if you desired you could make a movie that would make Saddam look good. Oh wait, the Democrats already do that.
Were Butch and Sundance both having sex with animals? I thought one of them had a girlfriend.
"It happens," the filmmaker said, "so it's part of who we are."
Oh, barf. Speak for yourself, ya loon.
I am sure they take great pride in their work and power to turn the hearts and minds of once good people around in their direction.
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
2Thes 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
The only thing I could think of after I read this article was: Why?
There's gotta be something foul in the west coast water.
[cue Nine Inch Nails-"Closer"...or even better, Nine Inch Richards' parody "Closer to Hogs"]
The mood and spirit of sex between a man and a stallion?
Wonder why he used to term 'marriage' instead of 'juxtaposition'?
"beastiality"Years ago, when the Chicago Stockyards was on its last legs, there was one 'kid' (Frankie) in the neighborhood who would go there to screw the Sheep.
Needless to say he was treated as a pariah - taunted, mocked, and called very name in the book (pervert, deviate) when he was seen on the streets. He was also a junkie (speed freak) and died of an O.D. when he was about 16 - and nobody cared. 'Good riddance' was the usual response.
No reason to be sorry, you posted just a few minutes later. I just fail to see why the mods pulled this same thread last night. The forum is getting more PC by the minute.
"A lot of people looked at me as if I was an exploitative person, dredging up something for profit, and that bothered me. I was certainly asked many times, often with a wrinkled brow, 'Why are you making this film?' It was something I did resent; I thought artists had the opportunity to explore anything."
Beautiful. I'm glad this guy explained that the movie is simply "art", so apparently its no big deal.
Perhaps next time he can explore pedophilia without making any moral judgments.
Wonder why he used to term 'marriage' instead of 'juxtaposition'?
You didn't think they were having sex out of wedlock, did you?
"There's gotta be something foul in the west coast water."
I don't blame you at all.
It's not surprising that the Sundance audience was able to conjur up the imagery in their minds.
Funny, this story was inappropriate to post last night and got pulled, but today it seems OK.
It certainly gives clarity to the occupation of those Brokeback guys: Sheepherders (cowboys, horse whisperers, lion tamers, etc.)
Maybe for Mr Redford it all started with a whisper...
*crickets*
Sleaze is sleaze - aestheticized or not.
SHEEPY: "Where is that Mr. Redford...I'm ready for my scene now."
"an elegant, eerily lyrical film"
Somehow I doubt it.
ROFL!
I must say that I do rely on FR for the humor in my life.
;-)
Where is PETA's outrage?
You beat me to it! I guess Peta doesn't mind a fella wearing animal skin in this manner (ew).
Someone posted this was "rock bottom", but I have to say it's what you'd find under the rock instead.
Hoo-weee! What was dat horse sayin'?
Incest and intergenerational affairs are also taboo and more likely to remain so than bestiality. Zoophilia is legal in many states so long as it occurs where no one can see it. Not so the other pairings.
The Sex Positive agenda seeks to end all moral judgements against ALL sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner, Santorum was correct about defining deviancy downward.
Whisper sweet nothin's in that horse's ear and find out.
It's only a matter of time before Vermont starts issuing the marriage licenses.
This isn't the first time sex with animals has been in a feature film. I vaguely recall there was a sheep oral sex scene in "Revenge of the Nerds" (or similar film) and, more recently, I heard a Jim Carrey character was involved in on-screen bestiality.
I happened to think of a few more fiction examples that edge into the Zoo realm. In the 1980's "V" the miniseries, a lizard alien (appearing as a human) impregnates a human female. Star Trek has featured cross-species relationships and resulting children starting with Mr. Spock.
Heather may have two mommies, but Suzie has a father and a goat.
Don't forget Bachelor Party.
Sex with animals, can be fatal. Do you remember the man in WA who had sex with a horse last year and he died from it? And then he had to stand before God and explain to Him how he died. LOL!
Genesis 19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; LEST THOU BE CONSUMED in the iniquity of the city!
Gen 19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, ESCAPE FOR THY LIFE; LOOK NOT BEHIND THEE, neither stay thou in all the plain; ESCAPE to the mountain, LEST THOU BE CONSUMED!
Proverbs 6:27-28 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
How do you get to “elegant and eerily lyrical” and “strangely beautiful” from doing the bone dance with Mr. Sphincter?
Devor called it "a difficult film and a difficult film to make." — how about an unnecessary film?
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